Programmer and blogger from Oslo. Writes online for the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. More articles at http://essays.bearstrong.net/category/english/
The recent years of financial turmoil have taught us how little it sometimes takes to trigger a financial crisis. We’ve lived through so many of these moments now, and in a way they’re all really the same moment, repeated over and over again like in a nightmare: A stock market, a bank, a currency, or an entire economy, stands on the edge of the abyss. We…
Activists need hope, and hope is created by heroes. A report from Oslo Freedom Forum 2014.
If you ask sex workers what they actually want, the answer is not prohibition, and not the “Nordic model”, but safer working conditions and respect. And their wishes are no longer as easy to ignore as they used to be.
On International Women’s Day this year, March 8, Norwegian feminists marched under banners with slogans like “Prostitution is violence…
We know we have to do something about climate change, but all we do is sit with folded hands and wait for a climate fix to fall into our laps. Should Norway take the lead by closing down the North Sea oil fields?
2013 is one more step on the road to our future climate. We don’t know what that climate will be like. We do know that…
The recent years of financial turmoil have taught us how little it sometimes takes to trigger a financial crisis. We’ve lived through so many of these moments now, and in a way they’re all really the same moment, repeated over and over again like in a nightmare: A stock market, a bank, a currency, or an entire economy, stands on the edge of the abyss. We…
